Research Engineer, Economic Research Data Platform

Anthropic's mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The Economic Research Data Platform team, part of the Anthropic Institute, studies AI's economic impact. As a Research Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain critical infrastructure powering research on AI's economic effects, including data pipelines, ML systems, and APIs.

• Build and operate data pipelines that turn raw usage data into clean, privacy-preserving datasets.
• Design systems including classifiers, probes on model internals, and ML pipelines to understand Claude's usage and economic impact.
• Develop self-serve workflows to ingest and integrate external data sources.
• Develop APIs, libraries, and interfaces serving data to researchers and the public.
• Partner with researchers, data scientists, policy experts, and cross-functional teams.
• Contribute to roadmap, documentation, and practices for self-serve data access with safety and governance.
• Ensure data reliability, integrity, and privacy compliance.

• Significant experience building data-intensive applications, pipelines, or internal tooling in production.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) and clean, well-documented Python.
• Intuition for analytics workflows and empathy for researchers/data scientists.
• Comfort making technical decisions with incomplete information while maintaining engineering standards.
• Full-stack mindset and strong communication skills.
• Interest in AI's economic implications.

• Experience with modern data transformation, orchestration, and query frameworks.
• Building systems on LLMs.
• Privacy-preserving data systems or data governance/lineage tooling.
• Building and operating web services.
• Full-stack development or complex data visualization.
• Background in econometrics, statistics, or quantitative social science.

Annual salary: $320,000—$405,000 USD.

San Francisco, CA. Hybrid: all staff expected in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.

Anthropic sponsors visas and will make reasonable efforts to obtain one for successful candidates.